I Consider Myself An American- God Bless the U.S.of A.
I am extremely proud to be a red blooded, gun toting, God fearing, Rod holding, American citizen. I love everything about living in this great nation and what I consider to be the greatest state for the outdoorsman in the United States. I love North Dakota and especially the lake region and all of its hunting and fishing opportunities. I will never leave here, it just wouldn’t feel right not to have my feet on or near the dirt and waters of the Northern Tier. Happy Independence day everyone, enjoy the day that is to celebrate this great nation. If you run into a service member of our armed forces, make sure you thank them for the blanket of freedom that they provide for you. Take a break from being a Democrat or Republican and just relish in the fact that the great nation of freedom you reside in allows you to pick that affiliation. Many people in many countries are not afforded that opportunity.
Back To Fishing
We apologize for the abbreviated fishing report yesterday. It was far from as in-depth as we wanted to get but between our trip on the water yesterday and working the evening shift last night, we just didn’t have the time. I contemplated postponing the post but that wouldn’t have been fair to our viewers. Today, I will comment more and get back to Tuesday’s weeds and water conditions next week.
Actually what we are doing to find fish right now doesn’t really concern weeds so I think it will be ok.
We have gone and found a lot of fish a little deeper and on structure. Hump chains to be exact. There are several areas on the Big Devil that consist of chains of either humps, distinct points, or rock piles. When a person attacks these with a bottom bouncer and a spinner with leech or crawler, the amount of fish you can find is astounding. We had two days where we boated over 40 walleyes. Most if not all of our latest fish have come on night crawlers attached to either hammered gold, orange and chartreuse, or orange and white spinners. Keep that speed relatively low at around .5-1.2 mph.
What You Should Look For On GPS
You GPS should look something like this. Hopefully your humps are coming up to 12-14 feet of water and the flats and drops are in that 16-22/23 foot range. Yesterday we did find some keeper eyes all the way into 26/27 feet but the big numbers were in that 12-23 foot range.
Saturday, while pulling crawlers on one of these archipelago type structures, we had a 26-27 inch eye right up to the boat before he pulled the back hook off the harness. I hadn’t really had time to replenish my custom spinner supply and had to use some store bought spinners. I guarantee one of mine would not have broken, lesson learned: make time for spinner tying!!
As you can see, in the early hours we try to hit those hump tops. Seems as though the Walleyes are really active on the tops in the mornings, coming up to feed. As the day gets longer we are slipping out to the edges as the eyes are slipping deeper as well and just kind of cruising those submerged flats and structure edges. We have been slowing the troll speed down a little as the day gets longer as well.
Don’t be afraid to slip deeper as there are a lot of fish on and around these structures. If you want a little more direction, all of these spots were of this type of trolling area:
Happy DLFR Guided Customers
Had a great time in the boat yesterday with these two guys. The funyons were spectacular and the Walleye action was pretty non-stop. Rick is still waiting for the first fish dollar from Lloyd. We boated almost 40 Walleyes and our sea legs got a little action as the 13 mph wind forecast soon turned into a 20-25 mph reality. A day like this is what a guided day with DLFR will look like. Hopefully soon we will start adding some Devils Lake Gold to the pictures.
Good Luck Out There!
